Antique American Desk Wax Seal - Iowa State

Seal Detail

An antique circular brass matrix with the reverse engraved with an arrow struck through the word: IOWA.  The obverse is engraved with a central scene comprising labourer holding flag of the United States on a ground featuring farming appliances, homestead and factory under a banner held aloft by a spread-winged eagle, the banner reading:

Our Liberties We Prize & Our Rights We Will Maintain

all within a lined border containing a circumscription, reading:

CHARLES NETTETON, COMMISSIONER FOR IOWA IN NEWYORK.

Charles Nettleton was commissioner for a number of the Midwestern and Northwestern states and territories, active in the 1860's and 1870's.  Nettleton appears many times in the "Biennial Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Wisconsin".  

Seal Specification

Height: 10mm 

Width of matrix: 40mm 

Weight: 110g